Good evening, beloved friends and brethren present, and also those who are in other nations; and warm greetings to Missionary Miguel Bermúdez Marín, who was speaking to you a few minutes ago; and from and to the place where he is, I want to convey my greetings to faithful missionary, Dr. Miguel Bermúdez Marín.
May God bless you, Miguel, and may He grant you much health and life so that you reach the transformation alive as well as the fulfillment of the Tent Vision. And may God bless all of you, ministers gathered there with him, and the entire congregation gathered there with him, where he is, and all the ministers in different nations and their congregations. May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon each one of you and also upon me.
Now I will read in First Kings, chapter 19, verse 8 and on… Verse 8 and on says, of First Kings, chapter 19; referring to the prophet Elijah it says:
“And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?
And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away (kill me).
And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake:
And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?
And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
And the Lord said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria:
And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.
And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.
Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.”
In tonight’s introduction to the subject of the Bible school, the subject of the Bible study will be: “ELIJAH ON THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD”; therefore, we will have a brief introduction to the subject of next Sunday’s Bible school, God willing.
Today, Friday, November 4, we will have the introduction this evening; and the Bible school will be the following Sunday, November 6, or next Sunday, November 6, where the subject will be: “ELIJAH ON THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD.”
Mount Sinai in the time of Moses, in the Exodus, was the mountain of God where the Angel of the Covenant was and where God appeared to Moses in a burning bush that was not consumed.[1] God was there in the Angel, in His Angel, in the Angel of the Covenant, to speak to the instrument that He had, through whom He would manifest Himself and deliver the Hebrew people from bondage in Egypt.
Therefore, that was the mountain to which God would take them to give them the Ten Commandments; to manifest Himself, to reveal Himself to Israel on that mountain; of which it says in Hebrews, chapter 12, verse 18 and on, Saint Paul speaking says:
“For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
For our God is a consuming fire.”
Just as Moses came unto the mountain of God or Mount Sinai or Mount Horeb with the Hebrew people, now, under the New Covenant, Christianity, the believers in Christ, since the Day of Pentecost have come unto the Mountain of God, which in the New Testament is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which has been going through the different stages. And when She went through the stage of sanctification in the days of Luther, in that stage, that is the stage where, there on Mount Sinai the prophet Elijah was on the mountain of God.
Now notice, we can see the prophet Moses with the people on Mount Sinai; we can see the prophet Elijah (now in this passage that we read) with the people, the ten tribes, or where God was going to speak to him, and we see him fleeing, when God appears to him and says: “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
He says to Him: “I have been very jealous for the Lord; because the children of Israel have forsaken Your Covenant…” and he begins to explain to Him why he had fled. And he was in the best place: on the mountain of God, Mount Sinai or Mount Horeb.
When God passes before him, what is heard and seen are the effects of a “great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind (that was the age or time of Luther, the Lutheran age): and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake (that is the Wesleyan age).
And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire (that is the Pentecostal stage in Christianity).”
Those are stages which later on Mount Zion or the Mountain of God of the New Testament, on the Mountain of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, those stages materialize; because those reflected the stages that would materialize on the Mountain of God of the New Covenant, of the New Testament.
But then comes a…: “…and after the fire a still small voice.”
That is in the Age of the Cornerstone: the Voice of God speaking with a Still Small Voice, speaking a still Message, a soft Message for all the believers. And notice [verse 13]:
“And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?
And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”
So, he was fleeing because they wanted to take his life, and he fled to the Mountain of God, where he saw the great and strong wind, an earthquake and a fire; three things, each in its time; but God was neither in the great and strong wind, nor in the fire – nor in the earthquake, nor in the fire. And then he saw and heard a still small voice, and God was there.
And when he heard the still small voice, the Word of God came to Elijah, and He asked him: “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
It is the same question that will come up: “Why is the Lord with the believers in Christ at the Last Day, on the Mountain of God, in the Age of the Cornerstone?” When the Jews see Christ coming for His Church, they will say: “This is the One whom we are waiting for.”[2]
That will be during the Still Small Voice: in the Age of the Cornerstone.
They will see the blessing that will come in the midst of Christianity in the Age of the Cornerstone, under the ministry of Elijah, who will be there, and from there the ministry will go on to the Hebrew people.
We saw Elijah in the seventh age, the ministry of Elijah in Reverend William Branham for the fourth time; and he says that it will come for the fifth time, for the Jews too.[3] That is the fifth time or fifth manifestation of Elijah’s ministry, where God will speak not only to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ but to the Hebrew people; especially the Hebrew people, in the fifth manifestation or ministry of Elijah. They are going to see him and ask themselves: “Why has that ministry been with Christianity?”
We are already in the time of the Still Small Voice; therefore, God will be speaking to the people about Israel and about a group of Christians who will be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
“ELIJAH ON THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD”.
Now, we saw that, under the New Covenant, the Mountain of God is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; which is also the spiritual Zion, it is also the spiritual Jerusalem. Therefore, we already know which is the Mountain on which Elijah will appear in His fifth ministry at the Last Day.
And in the fourth ministry it was also on the Mountain of God, in the Laodicean age, in the Pentecostal stage; that is why Reverend William Branham was moving with that ministry in that seventh age of the Gentile Church, represented in the Laodicean church of Asia Minor.
At this end time the ministry of Moses and Elijah will pass to the Hebrew people to take the prophetic Word, the Word of blessing, to the Hebrew people; but the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will see it first, the fifth ministry of Elijah and then the ministry of Moses, and so on, in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision.
There we will see more clearly the ministry of Elijah for the fifth time and the ministry of Moses in action. And we will hear it thundering with the Seven Thunders of Revelation, chapter 10, the ministry of the Mighty Angel that comes down from Heaven.
The literal thunders represent the spiritual Thunders, which is the Voice of God speaking to the people; just as He spoke to them on Mount Sinai, and thunders, voices, lightnings were seen, but it was God speaking.[4] They would see the physical part, but perhaps some didn’t fully understand God speaking to them; but Moses did know what God was speaking.
And God spoke with a thundering Voice to Moses, and the people would hear when God spoke to him. They all heard thunders, saw lightnings, voices; the mountain was full of angels and chariots of fire. It was a very important moment in the life of the Hebrew people.
Mount Sinai was full of angels. This is in Deuteronomy. That was when the blessings were being bestowed. Deuteronomy chapter 33 [verse 1]:
“And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
And he said, The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
Yea, he loved the people…”
What did Moses say? “He came with ten thousands of saints.” So, there was a big gathering there.
Now for a moment let’s see Daniel, chapter 7, verse 9 and on. It says:
“I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.”
Here thousands upon thousands also minister before God.
The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ under the New Covenant will be with the Prince Messiah in the judgment upon the nations and then on Judgment Day.
“ELIJAH ON THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD.”
We have already seen that the Mountain of God under the New Covenant is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is where Elijah appeared for the fourth time – the ministry of Elijah for the fourth time, just as the ministry of John the Baptist appeared in the people that were under the Old Covenant (Israel), and came and introduced the Messiah.
And the age or stage of John the Baptist was the seventh stage of the Hebrew Church under the Law, which is the Hebrew People; and then the Messiah the Prince was in the Age of the Cornerstone; because He is the Cornerstone or Capstone, and He is the One who produces the Age of the Cornerstone; just as God, through each messenger, produces each age, in the formation of a people as a Temple of God, and therefore, as a Mountain of God.
And now, at the Last Day, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ (which has passed through different stages or ages) is: the spiritual Temple of God. “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” Therefore, He says: “If any man defiles the temple of God, him shall God destroy.”[5]
So, the persecutions and all these killings against Christianity, will be judged in the Divine Judgment; and the recompense will be given by God, He will give the blessing to the believers who have been martyrs, and to all those who at the Last Day remain on the Mountain of God, which is the place where He will put those who are written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Where do we see that the fourth Elijah came? On the Mountain of God in the seventh stage. Then, outside the seventh stage: between the seventh stage and the eighth stage, between the seventh age and the Age of Cornerstone.
And where will we see Elijah coming first for the fifth time? On God’s Mountain, in the spiritual Temple of Christ, which is His Church and is the Mountain of God under the New Covenant.
That is why it is so important to know these Divine promises, so that we don’t fail at the Last Day, and to see what we are supposed to see in the Divine Program.
“ELIJAH ON THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD.”
“It is the Mountain which we have come in and unto,” says Saint Paul in Hebrews, chapter 12, verse 18 to 29. That is where God will speak as He spoke on Mount Sinai, that is also where Elijah… Just as Moses was on Mount Sinai, Elijah was also on Mount Sinai, and God spoke to him.
And it is on the Mountain of God of the New Covenant —the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ — that God has been speaking, it is the Mountain of God; and therefore, that is where He has been manifesting the ministry of Elijah for the fourth time (in the seventh age), and He will manifest the ministry of Elijah for the fifth time. And from there it will go to the Hebrew people, where the ministry of Elijah will be manifested for the fifth time and then the ministry of Moses.
And what Moses and Elijah will be to the Jews, will be the mystery of the Seventh Seal to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We will continue on Sunday, God willing. This has only been the introduction to the Bible study subject of Sunday’s Bible school: “ELIJAH ON THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD.” We will look into this subject in more detail, God willing.
I leave Missionary Miguel Bermúdez Marín with you where he is, and each minister in the church or congregation where they are; and in Puerto Rico I leave Reverend José Benjamín Pérez to continue.
Until next Sunday, God willing, where we will see Elijah in more detail in and for the fifth manifestation of the ministry of Elijah and the ministry of Moses on the Mountain of God.
Have a good evening, everyone. May God bless you greatly, and may He open the Scriptures to us next Sunday, and our understanding so that we understand.
Pray a lot for me as well, so that I am well for next Sunday. God has been helping me a lot, and He will continue to help me; and each one of you as well.
Remember that the… May God bless you and keep you; and continue having a happy evening, filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior.
“ELIJAH ON THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD.”
[1] Exodus 3:1-6
[2] Quotations, p. 22, para. 176: 57-1006 “Questions And Answers On Hebrews #3,” paras. 729-734
[3] The Seals, “The Fifth Seal,” pp. 36-37, paras. 315-320
[4] Exodus 19:16-19
[5] 1 Corinthians 3:16-17